Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 02.02.2019

ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, IN THE VIRGINIA CAPES OPERATING AREA РІР‚' When the sailors of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group leave Naval Station Norfolk for deployment this spring, ...

The air force is heading into what could be a training crisis with all its plans to acquire new trainer aircraft hitting a roadblock and two indigenous programmes to develop basic and intermediate training planes missing critical internal deadlines. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' The Trump administration said Friday it is freeing itself from the constraints of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia and will begin withdrawing from the pact on Saturday.President Donald Trump blamed the Russians for the demise of the Cold War-era pact, ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' As the Trump administration pushes for peace in Afghanistan, a new U.S. watchdog report says Afghan security forces are shrinking, gaps in security are growing, and the Taliban are largely holding their own despite a surge in American bombing.These trends reflect what U.S. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. РІР‚' American Legion officials are calling on New York lawmakers to request the Pentagon exhume the Long Island graves of sailors killed in a World War II ship explosion in an attempt to identify the fallen servicemen. ...

The US Navy's Sea Hunter autonomous trimaranР’В became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and back without a single crew member onboard, vessel designer and builder Leidos announced. ...

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to spend $1.2 trillion to develop major weapons, according to reports from the Congressional Budget Office. The Pentagon will spend more in future years. And because of that, ...

A barracks swindler assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego bilked a string of petty officers in California out of a combined $142,150, military prosecutors allege. Electrician's Mate Fireman Recruit Ko Ndali Aime David Land Kangha, 35, ...

The US Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) a contract for the construction of two new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 80 and CVN 81, in a bid to achieve cost savings by ordering the two ships at once. As per the navy, ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- The U.S. Navy will name a future littoral combat ship the USS Augusta in honor of the state's capital.The decision was announced Thursday by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine. ...

The foreign exchange reserves, held by the central bank, increased 22.88% on a weekly basis, breaking a five-week losing streak and crossing the $8-billion mark, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday.Earlier, the reserves plunged to $6,636.1 million, ...

The Rafale deal controversy reaffirmed a crucial fact: A regional power with global ambitions but without an indigenous military industry would be crippled even during small crises.If India wants to be a power worth reckoning, it must stand on its own two feet.Besides a homegrown military industry, ...

The unemployment rate for female veterans was lower in January than the male veteran rate for the third consecutive month, a fact that may be a reflection of the current strength of the economy and the possible impact of programs to expand women's job opportunities. ...

Army officials have released a detailed request for prototypes of the planned replacements for both the M16/M4 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapons. And a battery is included. The 'prototype opportunity notice' on the government business website fedbizopps. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' In a newly published interview with the New York Times, President Donald Trump claimed he forced former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign because 'I wasn't happy with the job that he was doing at all' and needed to make a change. 'I told Mattis to give me a letter (of resignation), ...

Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa today countered critics, saying the Indian Air Force had not changed any specification of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and separately ruled out cutting down on the size of his force.On Tejas, he said: ...

WorldFirst is used by Amazon sellers who do business across the globe and transact in many currencies.The parent company is based in the U.K. and is reportedly in advanced talks to be acquired by China's Ant Financial.U.S. customers weren't told why the service was suddenly shuttered this week. ...

Tesla's second round of layoffs in just seven months impacted at least 1,017 California employees at the company.Filings with California's Employment Development Department reveal Tesla laid off 78 employees from its Palo Alto office, 137 from its Lathrop facility and 802 from various facilities, ...

The U.S. Navy in late January 2019 confirmed the designation of its newest cruise missile, in the process clarifying its long-term plan for arming its growing fleet of warships. The plan heavily leans on one missile, in particular. It's the SM-6, ...

Maritime patrol squadrons from the US Navy and theР’В Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force met up for a coordinated maritime patrol operational procedures (CMPOP) exercise in Okinawa, Japan, recently. ...

The Navy on Thursday signed a deal for the bulk purchase of two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, a move that will reportedly save $4 billion over the long term and boost the fortunes of Newport News Shipbuilding.The $15. ...

VICENZA, Italy -- He was a penniless, traumatized Vietnamese teenager with a fifth-grade education when in 1980 he arrived in the U.S. He knew how to survive in the jungle, evade checkpoints and control the terror he often felt. ...

Behler writes that operational testing cannot begin until the program updates versions of the F-35's operating software, mission-data files, Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), and testing range infrastructure software. The troubled $1. ...

In a presidential tweet on Wednesday, President Donald Trump sounded cautiously hopeful regarding negotiations with North Korea. 'Decent chance of Denuclearization,' he announced in uncharacteristically low-key fashion through social media. ...

Just weeks after Royal Navy support ship RFA Mounts BayР’В embarked US Coast Guard personnel for counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean, the team found their first contraband. ...

Defence budget at a record high at over Rs 3 trillion for 2019-20 announced Industry experts point out that India's defence budget 2018 compares with the top five in the world. In fact, it overtook that of UK's for the first time in history, says a report by a global think-tank based in London. ...

The U.S. Army has a new music video that features two full-time recruiters rapping about the types of Army jobs that are open to young people in Generation Z.The video, which is scheduled to begin airing at 6 a.m. Eastern Time Friday on the Army's social media pages, shows Sgt. ...

After a 2018 of record lows, the unemployment rate for veterans climbed up again in the first month of the year. Post-9/11 veterans saw a jump from 3.6 percent in December to 4.2 in January, the highest unemployment rate for this group since last May, ...

PARIS вЂ' The Organization for Joint Armament Co-operation, OCCAR, has signed a €1.7 billion contract on behalf of the DGA French procurement agency with Chantiers de l'Atlantique and Naval Group for four Italian-designed logistic support ships. ...

The Navy may back off its much-publicized call for a 355-ship fleet and look at new options like unmanned vessels, the Chief of Naval Operations said.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has made some progress, but continues to fall short in many areas.That's according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester, the Office of Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' President Donald Trump's State of the Union address next week will include a call to end America's ongoing wars overseas, building on his recent comments suggesting troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The speech, set for Tuesday evening, ...

The robot appears without a name. Painted in black and a yellowish tan, it is bristling with the 12 little canisters, clustered in four sets of three, poised to project smoke or other protective measures in some direction. Any other capabilities, from sensors to autonomy to weapons, ...

The U.S. Navy is revisiting whether its 355-ship plan is sustainable, and whether today's national security environment calls for an even larger naval presence, the Navy's top officer said Friday.'We're on a path to grow the Navy,' said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, ...

ROME РІР‚' A series of diplomatic rows between France and Italy, culminating in the exchange of insults between leaders, is casting doubt on naval industry cooperation between the countries. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' Even after years of updates and improvements, the F-35's logistics system continues to be beset by data gaps and bugs that make it more difficult for maintainers to keep the joint strike fighter mission-ready, stated the Pentagon's chief weapons tester in a new report. ...

Days after the Supreme Court backed a Pentagon ban on transgender troops serving openly, an active-duty transgender sailor will appear as a guest of honor at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.Petty Officer 2nd Class Megan Winters will be the guest of Rep. A. ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet still does not have an adequate aircraft availability rate, according to the Defense Department's testing office.The fifth-generation fighter has had a 'flat' trend in capacity rates over the past three years, according to a recent Director of Operational, ...

Reuters reports earlier this week that the company is shifting strategy and will offer mostly researcher and engineering jobs in Wisconsin, not the blue-collar manufacturing jobs that were originally promised.Foxconn has $4 billion in tax breaks from the state to build LCD TV screens at the plant, ...

Suffering from a debilitating hangover? Looking down at your newly acquired compound leg fracture after Orlando Bloom-ing your fast-roping exercise? Unable to reconnect your head to your body? 'Nothing a little Motrin and water can't solve,' every military medical practitioner says. ...

Spaceflight Industries' rocket launch services business is disrupting the industry's model 'entirely,' Morgan Stanley said in a note to investors Friday.The note is the latest in Morgan Stanley's 'Space Disruptor Series. ...

CNBC's Jim Cramer breaks down how the Fed was the driving force behind the December slump.The 'Mad Money' host also sits down with the CEOs of Carbon and ADP.In the lightning round, Cramer's callers impress him with their stock picks. ...

Working dogs are four-legged heroes of the United States military. And now, to celebrate their battlefield contributions, these brave canines will have an honorary postage stamp of their own. The new red and blue 'forever' stamps will feature a German shepherd, Labrador retriever, ...

Indian Air Force's Mirage 2000 has crashed at HAL airport, Bengaluru. Reports are coming in that two pilots have perished in this unfortunate incident. The aircraft was being flown by two test pilots of the Indian Air Force. ...

Pakistan has conducted another successful launch of the tactical ballistic missile Nasr as part of the Army Strategic Forces Command training exercise, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. The exercise included a training test on January 24, ...

The Army has issued a formal call for industry partners toР’В  send in their prototypes Р’В for the Next Generation Squad Weapon program, a major step towards finally testing out a replacement for the M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon. On Wednesday, ...

The Russian air force could receive the first of up to 50 new Tu-160M long-range bombers as early as 2021, defense minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Jan. 30, 2019. The air force wants 50 of the swing-wing bombers. But that goal could prove unrealistic for the cash-strapped Kremlin. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' If the U.S. Air Force takes two years to conduct a light-attack experiment РІР‚' made possible in part by industry investments РІР‚' and then abandons it, why should defense contractors buy into the next one? ...

President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2020 budget has yet to be released, but analysts say the Defense Department can expect it to support the National Defense Strategy (NDS) and possibly to include funding for a border wall.Regardless of the amount the DoD receives, ...

A delegation of Pakistani water officials led by Indus Water Commissioner Mehr Ali Shah will return from New Delhi on Friday, ARY News reported. ...

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) РІР‚' A Connecticut city says it has recovered more than half the nearly $1 million stolen from city accounts during a 2016 hacking scheme. An attorney for the city of Norwalk said Wednesday that by filing claims, complaints and a lawsuit against insurance companies, ...

The Pentagon has almost completed a study of how to shoot down hypersonic missiles. It's also developing new offensive weapons -- conventional, not nuclear -- whose deployment will become legal with the end of the INF Treaty.

China is by far North Korea's largest trading partner, accounting for up to 90 percent of its trade flows. Therefore, how much the Trump administration's 'maximum pressure' campaign affects North Korea's most crucial export and imports is primarily a function of China's enforcement of sanctions. ...

President Donald Trump said he asked Jim Mattis to hand in his resignation after growing unhappy with the former defense secretary's performance, according to a new wide-ranging interview with The New York Times. ...

The Pentagon's independent tester reports that F-35 readiness is stuck at 60 percent, while the A model's gun is unacceptably inaccurate.

On Jan. 31, 2019, around 19.45LT, a C-5M Super Galaxy cargo aircraft conducted a nose gear up landing at Travis Air Force Base in California. The aircraft was flying from Colorado Springs Airport in Colorado for its flight to Travis, when the mishap, ...

German-based technology company Atlas is offering a set of mine countermeasures (MCM) systems for a new class of minehunters that are to be built for the Belgian and Dutch Navy. ...

Defense officials routinely tout the hypersonic weapons they hope to develop and field,Р’В but Raytheon's leadership sees anti-hypersonic defensive technology as the better long-term business bet. Raytheon is very interested in expanding its hypersonics business, ...

The former commander of the fast-attack submarine Bremerton was fired last year after he allegedly 'ordered' 10 'local provocatively dressed females' to a Subic Bay hotel during a port call, according to portions of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report released to Navy times. Cmdr. ...

BATH, Maine РІР‚' Retired Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan is going to witness a milestone in the construction of a warship that'll bear his name. Levin, who served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ...

Estonian Navy minehunterР’В EML Admiral Cowan received a series of upgrades during a dry dock periodР’В in Fife, Scotland, Babcock International РІР‚' the company in charge of the upgrades announced. ...

'Now that they've completed the initial ground run, the team can finish its work to clear the aircraft for first flight,' said Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the Vertical Flight Society. 'Assuming the Defiant team doesn't find anything noteworthy from its ground testing, ...

PANAMA CITY -- The Air Force is committed to spending $3 billion during the next five years to rebuild Tyndall Air Force Base, including an initial investment of at least $40 million by the end of 2019, senior service officials announced at a community forum Thursday. ...

The US Navy's 34th littoral combat ship will be named USS Augusta (LCS 34), Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer announced on Thursday. The Independence-variant LCS is named in honor of the capital city of Maine, and is the sixth vessel to bear the name Augusta. ...

The Air Force just won't let go of its Panama City locale. Service officials announced Thursday that they plan to spend $3 billion over the next five years to rebuild Tyndall Air Force Base, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Michael on Oct. 10. During an 'industry day' event, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. РІР‚' Three California men have been granted French citizenship for their role in thwarting a terror attack on a French train in 2015.Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler were naturalized Thursday at a ceremony in Sacramento. They were honored by Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, ...

At least twenty-two people including 15 militants were killed in January this year, reveals official data. Besides 15 militants, 2 soldiers, a policeman, a trooper, a BSF man and an Army porter were killed.As per the data 15 militants were killed in 7 encounters. ...

One by one, six intelligence officers made a pitch for tech-savvy college graduates to join their ranks. 'There is nothing more rewarding than protecting the American people,' FBI Director Chris Wray said when asked by Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., ...

Tesla short sellers have been gathering and sharing research, including aerial photography, about the automaker's activities on social media platforms, especially Twitter, for months.Today a group of the Tesla bears launched a website, Tslaq.org, to share contributors' photos, ...

Ships from NATO's Standing Maritime Group ONE (SNMG1) are on a scheduled port visit in Bergen where thy are finalizing planning for Allied Maritime Command led exercise Dynamic Guard 19-1. Hosted by Norway, Dynamic Guard is a multi-national exercise, ...

In a sharp criticism to Indian government's policies in Jammu and Kashmir, American political scientist Christine Fair has said that India's record in Kashmir is not what one would expect from a democracy.'Now, ...

'For far too long, Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with impunity,' a statement from the White House said. ...

HELSINKI РІР‚' Finland's HX-FP multirole fighter replacement program has advanced to the next stage as five aircraft manufacturers have tendered their proposals to the Finnish Defence Forces' (FDF) Logistics Command office. The proposals include preliminary quotations on cost. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' Amid the reshuffling of the Defense Department's senior leaders, 26 senators from both sides of the aisle are urging the acting defense secretary not to drop the ball on the Pentagon audit. The Jan. 30 letter from members of the Senate Armed Services and Budget committees, ...

As President Trump considers pulling all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, and with the Senate coming together this week to rebuke such a plan, a watchdog report released this week showcases the fragility of the reconstruction effort. The U.S. ...

ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- There's a new boss in town for the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group: Capt. Steve Shepard, the first board-selected information warfare commander (IWC) assigned to a strike group as it prepares to deploy.As IWC, ...

The Army wants to better understand the emerging technology scene and learn how to purchase the right equipment to stay ahead of nations such as Russia and China. One way it plans to do that is by renaming its Research, Development and Engineering Command, ...

'Robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us,' said Elon Musk in 2017. It is too early to know whether Musk is right, but, as GeekWire points out, ...

Air Force Research Laboratory junior force researchers are working with a Michigan university to design a maritime rescue device that could save lives during sea emergencies.Researchers from the AFRL, ...

The Air Force has announced finalists for the 2019 Spark Tank competition РІР‚' a platform for airmen to showcase their innovative ideas to the service's leadership and solicit funding for their product's expansion. Out of this year's 320 submissions, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. РІР‚' Defense analysts expect President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2020 national security budget will requestР’В about $750 billion, a funding level they consider barely enough to sustain the Pentagon's current operations. ...